Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

A Senior DBA's deep-dive into the most underrated tier of Azure SQL Most DBAs I know are still running their workloads on General Purpose or Business Critical. They shouldn't be. I've spent the last ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

“Temenos Core is powered by Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which supports database sizes of up to 128 terabytes. Our customers get the processing speed and architectural flexibility to future-proof ...

description Create a Hyperscale database in Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal, Transact-SQL, PowerShell, or the Azure CLI. To create databases via the Azure portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or ...

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The [Hyperscale service tier](service-tier-hyperscale.md) provides a highly scalable storage and compute performance tier that leverages the Azure architecture to scale out storage and compute ...

Abstract: XLOG is the centralized log service of the SQL Azure Hyperscale (Hyperscale) distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) within Microsoft Azure. It is responsible for disseminating transaction ...

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ANALYSIS Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap. Research ...